Improved washing-machine



. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,-

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part-ot` Letters Patent No. 55,928, dated June :26, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY H. STAPLES, of Woburn, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful or Improved Washing-Machine; and l do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specifica-tion, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, of it.

In the said drawings, A denotes a tub or reservoir of a rectangular form, it having within,

4at or near its bottom, aframe, B, containing a series of rollers, a a a, arranged parallel to each other and near together, and with their axes crosswise of the tub. The said frame is held in place in the middle ofthe bottom of the tub by means ot' two projections, b b, extended from opposite sides of the tub and into corresponding recesses made in the sides of the frame. Each roller a should be capable of freely revolving' on its axis.

Over the frame of rollers is a rubber or washboard, G, corrugated or flut-ed on its lower surface and being affixed to a bar, D, near its middle, by means of two posts, c o. The bar D has one or more handles, d d, applied to one end ot' it, and the said bar, at its other end, goes one end of the tub and supported by two standards, f f, the whole being as shown in the drawings. Each of these rollers should be applied to the standards.

ln operating this machine, when clothes and water are within the tub, a person is to lay hold of the handles d d of the lever or bar D, and press the bar downward and move it back and forth longitudinally, so as to impart to the rubber a reciprocating movement on the clothes between it and the seriesof rollers.

The upper of the two rollers e e will support the bar or lever and guide it during its movements. By means ofthe said bar so applied to the rubber the latter can be readily raised out of the tub, or be raised up into a vertical or nearly vertical position.

I claim- The arrangement and combination of the bar or lever D, its handle or handles d d, and the standards and roller e with the rubber,

'the tub, and the series of rollersdisposed in suchV tub, the whole being substantially as specified.

HENRY H. STAPLES. Witnesses: l

F. P. HALE, Jr., GEORGE ANDREWS. 

